What's Up at St. Mark's? 4-7-10
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA["I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth…I will see Him with my own eyes-I and not another. Job 19: 27
The Kindergarteners and Preschoolers saw the paper mache tomb in the hall opened and empty and studied the Easter resurrection story. Hallelujah! He is Risen! To celebrate further in the classroom, each of the three levels made Easter Bunny Bags by cutting out ears and gluing them on the bags and adding eyes and noses. Kindergarteners added felt ears, front teeth, bows and cottontails. Then the classes played games and won prizes to fill their bags. Last Monday evening some of the PreK 3's and parents came to the Easter Fun SPAN (Student Parent Activity Night) in the cafeteria. They played learning games together by sorting red, green, and pink "strawberries", finishing patterns using paper Easter eggs, creating chick puppets, doing number matching games and spending time in the reading corner with books about Easter. There were also visitors who will be attending our Preschool next year!
First grade spent a lot of time this Holy week remembering the events of Holy Week. Our Bible story was about Jesus' death. We colored a mural about Holy Week. We also made Resurrection cookies on Wednesday whose ingredients reminded us of the story of Jesus death. When we ate the cookies on Thursday they were hollow, reminding us of the empty grave Easter morning! We looked inside some special eggs that showed us reminders of different parts of the story of Holy Week. On April 1 (April Fool's Day) the class wrote 'excuses' for not handing in homework. Claire wrote: I sol a cat and it teared up my homewerck. Adrienne wrote: I didn't do my homework because my mom ate my homewerk because she thot it was 7-up. Samantha wrote: One day when I was going to school I saw a T-"Rex following me when suddenly it opened its mouth them…CHOMP!!! It ate me. And he ate my homework!! Elisha wrote: I did not hand my homework n because my dog eat it. Adison wrote: I did not hand in my homework because I put it in a wood chipper. Megan wrote: My dad ate my homework because he thot it was wipcreem and my mom used it to fede the dogs. Dalton wrote: My mom took my hoomweerck to my dog. We had fun singing lots of songs in music on Thursday. Blessed Easter!
Second graders designed, decorated, and flew kites. This was a lot of fun! The class also practiced problem solving and read Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong. They reviewed the Easter story and made and decorated crosses. They have now learned the location of 25 of the 50 states in the U.S.
3rd and 4th grades sang songs for the residents of Three Springs Lodge on Tues., March 30. The children prepared traditional Easter songs like, "Go To Dark Gethsemane", modern religious music like, "Lord I Lift Your Name on High" and silly songs like "Little Bunny Foo Foo". They enjoyed sharing the Easter message.
The fifth grade made Easter crosses and homemade Easter cards for friends and family members. We started our science fair projects and learned what our names would be in an African language.
The sixth grade celebrated "Baked Potato Day" in science last Wednesday. Will you find it on any calendar? No, but the class had talked about potatoes and their nutritional value and decided to create their own celebration! Each student (and teacher) brought a potato that the cooks kindly baked in the oven during the morning. "Fixings" that the class provided included sour cream, onions (very fresh and potent as Latchkey noticed that afternoon!), cheese, butter, bacon bits, ranch dressing, garlic, salt, pepper and ketchup.
Thank you to all of you who supported the 7th grade Coca-Cola products sale. We sold over 300 cases which will help with expenses for our class trip to Washington, D.C. next year.
Both seventh and eighth Graders viewed The Passion of Christ as part of their respective religion classes. The movie generated a lot of discussion as some had a very hard time watching the suffering that our Savior endured for our sakes.
This is the joy of being part of the family of a Lutheran school. We know that our Redeemer lives and we can share the joy of that message everyday in so many ways in our classrooms. Christ is risen! Hallelujah! He is risen indeed!